https://nitter.net/ElijahSchaffer/status/1695586173371154813

  • BodyBySisyphus [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    The only reason this goober is even famous in the first place is because he treated Rosalind Franklin like a lab assistant.

  • CarbonScored [any]
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    1 year ago

    I met this man ten years ago at my workplace. He's spiteful, pretentious, and at the very least since his senility, is just a constant dribble of complete and utter anti-scientific nonsense. Sadly he and Francis Crick both praised eugenics.

    I've also met some good'uns in Biological science, but these guys weren't it.

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      I also would like to add that this "Great Man theory of History" is wrong for Watson quite a bit. A lot of that is already referenced in this thread, but I would like to point to the collective effort of untangling DNA that did preced Watson. Without him there would still be all the results we got now there. When Watson was born there were already ideas of what could be described as DNA, but of course the imaging is quite important, but it was bound to happen (unless a nuclear war would've broken out).

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    maw

    Also: no Lysenko apologia on my watch

    • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Everyone who has ever mentioned meeting James Watson has him immediately saying something incredibly racist, sexist, or antisemitic.

      • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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        1 year ago

        None of my college bio classes gave him any credit either, he was only ever mentioned as “This fucking asshole who stole Rosalind Franklin’s work”

  • Deadend [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    He found DNA, doesn’t mean he understands it.

    • SeducingCamel [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      This is how I feel about the creator trying to say it's pronounced "jif"

    • hexi [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Also, lysenkoism is bullshit

      🙄 Why are we federated with lemmy.one again?